02071nam a2200313Ia 4500 ebr10019887 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 021205s2002 sz a sb i001 0 eng d 9241562072 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70757975 RA441 .W67 2002eb World Health Organization. The world health report 2002 [electronic resource] : Reducing risks, promoting healthy life / World Health Organization. Reducing risks, promoting healthy life Geneva : World Health Organization, 2002. 232 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Message from the Director-General -- Overview -- ch. 1. Protecting the people -- ch. 2. Defining and assessing risks to health -- ch. 3. Perceiving risks -- ch. 4. Quantifying selected major risks to health -- ch. 5. Some strategies to reduce risk -- ch. 6. Strengthening risk prevention policies -- ch. 7. Preventing risks and taking action -- Statistical annex -- List of member states by WHO region and mortality stratum. The report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a selected number of the most important risks to human health and also calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next couple of decades if the same risk factors were reduced. It shows how some of those possible reductions can be achieved in a range of cost-effective ways--P. xiii. Also available via the World Wide Web. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. World health Statistics. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10019887 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 9240 9240